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  1. Feb 5, 2024 · Keren Carrión/NPR. It was August 2009 when the police raided writer George Pelecanos' home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., with a no-knock warrant. He was performing his ...

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  2. George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author, producer and television writer. Many of his 20 books are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. On television, he frequently collaborates with David Simon, writing multiple episodes of Simon's HBO series The Wire and Treme, and ...

  3. Jan 3, 2000 · Pelecanos rewrote the book in longhand a few times before sending it blind to St. Martin's. "I was naïve," he recalls. "I believed what it says in Writer's Market-- no simultaneous submissions ...

  4. Jul 26, 2006 · George Pelecanos, whose new novel is “The Night Gardener,” near a community garden in Washington. ... July 26, 2006; SILVER SPRING, Md. — On one of the bookshelves lining a wall of his ...

  5. Oct 4, 2018 · George Pelecanos is famous for bringing the mean streets of Washington, D.C., Baltimore and New York to life in both his best-selling novels and in TV shows like "The Wire" and, most recently ...

  6. Jan 6, 2015 · Pelecanos is now a successful crime novelist who sets his stories in D.C.'s neighborhoods. His new book, The Martini Shot, is a collection of short stories and a novella about a TV writer and ...

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  8. It is comprised of 4 novels in total, which were released between the years 1996 and 2000. The first book of this series was published under the title of ‘The Big Blowdown’. It was released by the Serpent’s Tail publication in the year 2011, after its initial release in 1996. Author Pelecanos has set the plot in the year 1946 in ...

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